L&H Polymers - June 2012

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UrbanX

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Visited one humid summer afternoon with Priority 7.

L&H Polymers is located in Great Billing, Northampton. The factory was once a large busy place of work which developed the flooring for the Northampton bus station as well as some of the flooring in the London Underground as well as the Tokyo Underground in Japan.

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Every report I’ve ever seen of the place it’s been trashed. I didn’t expect to get there and find mint company records, or machinery in tact etc. What drew me to the place was the shear dereliction, and the way the light falls through the holes in the roof.

Most of the warehousing areas looked like this:

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Larger, first floor production area:
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Although a lot of it looked similar, you’d come across occasional abnormalities:
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Signage:
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Lo and behold, I did manage to find a records office, with a few documents / drawings:
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Hand drawing of Sam Fox, Page 3 model c.1984:
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The site is huge. Despite the knowledge of security being onsite I decided to make my way up the outside of the tallest building to see the whole site:

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Cheers for looking.
 
Another cracking set mate! Love the close ups on the file covers and machine blueprints!

Thanks for posting them up dude! :)

EDIT - Meant to ask, is the sky in the final two and the first shot the "real" sky or a photoshop? Looks so dramatic, I love it!
 
Love this place fella, knackered but pure industrial dereliction :)
 
Meant to ask, is the sky in the final two and the first shot the "real" sky or a photoshop? Looks so dramatic, I love it!

Cheers dude! It's the actual sky, I've just darkened it a little :)
(I cant photoshop skys on when there are tree's, it's too intricate :p )
 
There has definately been some soft demo on this place there were route marking laid out and loads of trash has been cleared from the office building too
 
Quite the explore, the site looks impressive, well done for dodging the secca too haha! Superb report!
 

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